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- Spectacular close-up images of the Moon
- Reference map so astronomers can compare the images with what they can see
- Indentification of features with their IAU names
- Severe degrading effects of the original images have been removed, making features clearer
- Notes based on extensive review of the scientific literature and recent meetings
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In 1967, Lunar Orbiter Mission 4 sent back to Earth a superb series of photographs of the surface of the Moon, despite severe degradation caused by scanning artifacts and the reconstruction processes involved in transmission from lunar orbit.
Using 21st century techniques, Charles Byrne – previously System Engineer of the Apollo Program for Lunar Orbiter Photography – has removed the artifacts and imperfections to produce the most comprehensive and beautifully detailed set of images of the lunar surface.
The book has been organized to make it easy for astronomers to use, enabling ground-based images and views to be compared with the Orbiter photograph. All features have been identified with their current IAU-approved names, and each photograph has been located in terms of latitude and longitude. To help practical astronomers, all the photographs are systematically related to an Earth-based view.
Reviews
From the reviews:
Choice Outstanding Title! (January 2006)
"With plans to return astronauts to the Moon, our nearest planetary body is of obvious interest at the moment. … The book has been organised to make it easy for astronomers to use … . the quality of reproduction in this volume is excellent and readers will undoubtedly spend endless hours vicariously exploring the lunar surface. " (International Space Review, 2006)
Authors and Affiliations
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Image Again, Middletown, USA
Charles J. Byrne
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon
Authors: Charles J. Byrne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-154-9
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-886-2Published: 27 May 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-154-9Published: 17 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 329
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques